Shed On The Roof

Thoughtless Expediancy. 

I have always been fascinated by this phenomenon. The ephemeral styles of the day come and go, but what of the storage shed box so inelegantly placed (dropped?) on the top of the building?
The go go GIT-R-DUN mindset gets it done, but at what cost? Who cares? The person who did this probably has never given it a second thought. As a matter of fact, HE'S probably committing similar atrocities in Meridian, where such thoughtlessness abounds.
And fits.

Shiny Banker Bunker

Glazed red brick box of bankers. 

Railroad Heritage

 

This is one of the remainders from the switching yard that used to occupy a portion of downtown Boise Idaho... a lot of our railroad infrastructure is still there, waiting to be reused. But that is just dumb to a lot of people. They think railroads are old timey times antiquated.
They are thinking Amtrak, not freight.
Passenger rail is a long way off. Like, in the past. But don't tell the other industrial economies. All of them, besides England, have maintained their railroads and used them. And still use them.
I don't know what the future means for railroads in America. The right wing derides us devotees of "choo choo trains," and the left wing is lost in fantasies of hyper mileage alternative fuel super cars.
So I don't know if we will ever get back what we have blithely thrown away.